U2 Add Rarities, Live Tracks and B-Sides to Reissues

The reissues of U2's first three albums — Boy, October and War — will each contain discs full of rarities and live performances as well as B-sides from the era. Boy will be accompanied by three unreleased songs "Speed of Life," "Cartoon World" and "Saturday Night," along with a different mix of "I Will Follow." Live performances from the Hammersmith Palais and the Paradise Theater in Boston will join October, while War will feature the unreleased track "Angels Too Tied to the Ground" and a bunch of remixes of "New Years Day" and "Two Hearts Beat as One." All three deluxe editions will be out on July 22nd.

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Song Stories

“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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